• ANTHONY W. RICHARDSON

     

    "Data levels all arguments."

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    Founder, Author, Advisor, Speaker, Investor

     

    Dog person

  • INTRODUCTION

    Strategy. Insight.

    Guidance. Execution.

     

    During my career, I have had the pleasure of working with...

    Venture capitalists, who parachute me in to ensure the growth marketing and overall performance of the startups within their portfolio,

    Innovative tech founders, who want to focus on building their vision, but need someone to promote and scale the fantastic that they've created,

    Fortune 500 corporations, who want to tap into and engage the innovative startup ecosystem to glean insights and technology,

    and leading incubators, accelerators and academic institutions where I can give back, teach, mentor, evaluate and guide the next generation of startup entrepreneurs.

    In late 2017 I founded Gearbox.AI, a big data, AI startup designed to solve startup sourcing and diligence for open innovation professionals.

    In 2019, I founded VentuRank (exited) a startup intake scoring platform to make early screening easier for venture capitalists' cold deal flow.

    For 2025/2026 I'm building another software company in the corporate culture space.

    It's been a great journey (so far),

    -AWR

  • STATS & FIGURES

    A career in numbers

    244

    Startup Consulting Engagements

    83.2%

    Successful Startups / Harvest

    14

    Liquidity Event

    Participation(s)

    6

    Accelerators & Incubators Roles As Mentor / Advisor / SME

    132

    Accelerator / Incubator

    Startups Mentored

    11

    Startup Board Member

    Seats Held

    4

    Non-Profit Board

    Seats Held

    4

    Interim C-Level (CMO, COO)

    Roles Held

    2

    Entrepreneur-in-Residence

    Roles Held

    2

    Book(s) Published

    ~ 20+

    Years of Experience

    (I gotta stop updating this number)

  • ACADEMIA

    Fostering Student-led

    Entrepreneurship

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    Washington University St. Louis

    Skandalaris Cup : Mentor

    Skandalaris Center for Entrepreneurship

     

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    Washington University St. Louis

    Global Impact Awards: Mentor

    Skandalaris Center for Entrepreneurship

     

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    Washington University St. Louis

    Greenleaf Fund Selection Committee Member

    Skandalaris Center for Entrepreneurship

  • MENTORSHIP:

     

    ACCELERATORS / INCUBATORS

    Guiding Tomorrow's

    Innovative Tech Founders

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    TechStars

    (fmr) Startup Growth Mentor

     

    Boulder, CO

    Chicago, IL

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    Starter Studio

    (fmr) Subject Matter Expert

     

    Orlando, FL

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    YCombinator

    (fmr) Cohort / Portfolio Advisor

     

    Mountain View, CA

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    500 Startups

    (fmr) Startup Growth Mentor

     

    Mountain View, CA

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    Capital Innovators

    Subject Matter Expert

     

    St. Louis, MO

  • COMPANIES & PROJECTS

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    VentuRank

    Founder

    Data collection and diligence analytics for busy venture capital and private equity professionals. Score your cold deal flow and save your inbox.

     

    (Est. 2020)

    (Exit)

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    Gearbox.AI

    Founder, CEO

    Using artificial intelligence to solve the pain of startup sourcing, scouting and diligence for open innovation professionals at large corporations.

     

    (Est. 2017)

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    Full-Scale

    Founder, Principal

    A boutique consulting firm dedicated to providing venture capitalists and their Series A startups with market-ready customer acquisition and user adoption strategies.

     

    (Est. 2003)

    (Exit)

  • Fall / Winter 24 Speaking Topics

    “Full-Scale”: How to Grow Any Startup Without a Plan or a Clue

     

    Educating startups, tech incubators, and corporate organizations the exact method used to build marketing programs that deploy quickly and use data to measure results and scale. The talk behind the best-selling book.

    Corporate Startup Engagement: Innovation x Proximity

     

    Recent studies have shown that innovation is happening everywhere--except within the walls of the corporate castle. Learn R&D, M&A, and innovation doesn't have to cost hundreds of millions and take years to deploy and integrate.

     

    Learn why leading corporations are working with startups. Discover the data that suggests its the modern path forward with innovation and, hear how to engage with the ecosystem equipped for success.

    How the Internet, Dopamine and Your Brain are Working Together to Screw your Potential

     

    A brief overview of the neurological reward chemical known as dopamine, and insight into our “search culture”; where we no longer utilize the cognitive functions when our minds when are searching for answers.

     

    Bridging the intersection between neuroscience and technology, and what its doing to us.

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    PUBLISHED WORK

     

    FULL-SCALE: How to Grow Any Startup Without a Plan or a Clue

     

    National Best-seller in Startups, Small Business, Technology, eCommerce and Internet Marketing

     

     

    "This is now my go-to recommendation when anyone asks me about Startup Marketing"  

    - Ryan Gum, Senior Growth Marketer, HubSpot

     

    "...Full-Scale helped me reach several epiphanies throughout the book"

    - David Ahn, Demand Generation Manager, SalesLoft

     

    "Excellent. Definitely worth the read, especially if you're just starting out."

    - David Arnoux, Founder, GrowthTribe.io

     

    "8 months of researched solved in 2 days of reading",

    "This book is amazing and every entrepreneur should have his/her own copy!",

    "Much better than just reading a bunch of case studies and fluff like other competing books"

    - Amazon Reviewers

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    BORDERLESS:

    The New Rules of Work in a World Without Walls

    (now available)

  • CHARITABLE CAUSES

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    ASPCA

    Business Ambassador

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    Best Friends Animal Society

    Guardian Angel

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    World Wildlife Fund

    Partner in Conservation

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    Skoll Foundation

    Social Entrepreneurship Ally

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    Omidyar Network

    Governance & Citizen Engagement

  • ELSEWHERE

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    Twitter

    (er, X or whatever)

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    LinkedIn

    (Seems legit)

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    Medium

    (I used to write things)

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    Angel List

    (do people still use this?)

  • CONTACT

     

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